Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) has upgraded its News Feed by enabling users to hide particular posts from certain people by clicking on the grey arrow at the corner of the post. With the new tool, users can opt out from seeing each and every post of certain people and can limit the number to a few or even stop following the person completely. Facebook Inc … Continue reading Stock News: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Introduces Unfollow Option
In a compelling video, the Atlas robot can be seen balancing on one foot and partially performing the crane kick popularized by the film Karate Kid. The 330lbs, 6ft 2in robot is in fact built by Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG)-owned Boston Dynamics, and controlled by an algorithm written by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). “Atlas is a high mobility, humanoid robot … Continue reading Active Stock: Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Develops Cool Karate Kid Robot
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) announced that that its messenger app has more than 500 million users per month. The Facebook Messenger is the first standalone app of the social network giant. It was developed to provide users with a faster and more expressive way to communicate. According to Peter Martinazzi, director of product management at Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB), users can communicate with their friends … Continue reading Stock Highlights: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Messenger Crosses 500M
The Internet briefly looked a little different on Wednesday as ads across a number of websites vanished. A failure at a Google (NASDAQ GOOG) ad server caused loading problems for many websites Wednesday morning, possibly costing publishers millions in missed ad revenue. The problem appears to have begun around 9 a.m. ET, but was resolved around 11:30 a.m. ET, according to Reuters report. Websites including … Continue reading Stock in News: Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Double Click Ad Server Goes Down
Twitter Inc (NYSE TWTR) is losing on the competition between the social networking sites, and is struggling to increase user growth. The company is continuously making changes to its website, and it has tweaked the website design again to give Twitter a more Facebook (NASDAQ FB)-like look. The status bar now appears at the place where a tweet is composed by the user. This is … Continue reading Stock News: Twitter Copying Facebook (NASDAQ FB) ?
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB)’s Messenger standalone app, which initially received a lot of criticism from users, is gradually seeing a growing adoption. This is not too surprising given Facebook did not leave any other option for users when it segregated the app and designed Facebook Messenger for quick chats. The growing adoption among users is evident from the fact that after around four months, the … Continue reading Stock Focus: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) Messenger App Gradually Gaining Ground
